Sowing Struggle: Social Movements and the Future of Corn

Luz Rivera Martinez, co-founder and lead organizer of Consejo Nacional Urbano Campesino (CNUC), an organization that advocates for and accompanies peasant workers, a bus drivers' cooperative and the National Assembly of Braceros in their struggles against government corruption, police repression and neoliberalism.

Luz will speak about her 20 years of experience in women's, peasant, and labor movements.As CNUC's lead organizer, Luz has worked tirelessly to demand government accountability, defend family farms, resist the use of GMO seeds, and build inspiring, community-based autonomous projects.Co-sponsored with the Departments of History, Geography and Environmental Systems, Political Science, American Studies, Modern Languages, Linguistics & Intercultural Communication, Gender and Women's Studies Program, Global Studies Program, Language, Literacy and Culture Doctoral Program, the Graduate Student Association, the Women's Center, the Shriver Center, and the Honors College